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Acknowledging many voters were rebelling against a system they felt had failed them, Jones said there were ugly racial sentiments at work as well.

"This was a whitelash against a changing country," Jones said. "It was whitelash against a black president in part. And that's the part where the pain comes."

November 9, 2016

hugovk commented on the word whitelash

whitelash, n.

Van Jones, 09 November 2016:

But there's another side to this. People have talked about a miracle. I'm hearing about a nightmare. It's hard to be a parent tonight for a lot of us. You tell your kids: 'Don't be a bully'. You tell your kids: 'Don't be a bigot'. You tell your kids: 'Do your homework and be prepared'. And then you have this outcome and you have people putting children to bed tonight and they're afraid of breakfast. They're afraid of: 'How do I explain this to my children?' I have Muslim friends who are texting me tonight saying: 'Shall I leave the country?' I have families of immigrants that are terrified tonight. This was many things. This was a rebellion against the elites. True, it was a complete reinvention of politics and polls, it's true.

But it was also something else. We've talked about race... I mean: we have talked about everything but race tonight. We have talked about income, we've talked about class, we've talked about region. We haven't talked about race. This was a whitelash. This was a whitelash against a changing country. It was a whitelash against a black president in part, and that's the part where the pain comes.

And Donald Trump has a responsibility tonight to come out and reassure people that he is going to be the president of all the people who he insulted and offended and brushed aside. Yeah. When you say you want to take your country back, you got a lot of people who feel we're not represented well either. But we don't want to feel that someone has been elected by throwing away some of us, to appeal more deeply to others. This is a deeply painful moment tonight. I know it's not just about race, there's more going on than that. But race is here too and we got to talk about it.

November 9, 2016